Gleb Pospelov

THE EXHIBITION "NATALIA GONCHAROVA. EAST AND WEST" AT THE TRETYAKOV GALLERY CASTS LIGHT ON MANY ASPECTS OF GONCHAROVA'S ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT, INCLUDING THE INFLUENCE ON HER EARLY WORKS OF PAUL GAUGUIN. THE 1989 EXHIBITION "GAUGUIN. A VIEW FROM RUSSIA" AT THE PUSHKIN MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HAD ALREADY AFFORDED AN OPPORTUNITY TO EXPLORE1 THE IMPACT OF THE FRENCH MASTER'S PAINTINGS ON THE RUSSIAN ARTIST. BUT THE NEW SHOW OFFERS A WIDER PERSPECTIVE ON THE SUBJECT.

“When you've got nothing better, play diamonds!” “This brazen Knave... is more like a lunatic asylum than an art exhibition!” Thus, the newspapers greeted the new “Knave of Diamonds” exhibition which opened on 10 December 1910.